Production date is not determined by serial number. Manufacture date is
either behind the pressure plate or printed in small white letters in the
film chamber. It's time to get out your decoder rings......
John Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Garth Wood" <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] "When was it made?" question
| At 08:48 PM 7/19/2001 -0400, Michael Zimmet wrote:
| >Is there a website that gives the dates of manufacture of Olympus
| >cameras and lenses based on serial number?
|
| No. Even Olympus doesn't have this information (several List members have
tried to elicit such info out of Oly; all have been told that no such info
exists).
|
| >If not, anyone care to guess when an OM-1n, serial number 2,116,xxx
| >might have left the factory?
|
| Mine was purchased new in the last year of the model's manufacture --
1987. It has a serial number of 2,191,6xx. Unfortunately, this may not
have a strong correlation to when it was *manufactured* -- it's possible it
sat in stock for months or even years before it was finally sold at retail.
|
| Garth
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